 | 1897
...I wiH not learn Nor ape the glittering upstart fool; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl? Give grasping pomp its double...Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content! The Opening of the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 279 pages
...will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double...Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! MY LAST WALK WITH... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860
...would not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; Shall not carved tables serve my turn 1 But all must be of buhl. Give grasping pomp its double...heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much — Too grateful for the blessings lent, Of simple tastes and mind content. El I> ITORI .A. L... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 308 pages
...will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double...Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! PARSON TUKELL'S LEGACY:... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 308 pages
...long for Midas' golden touch ; If Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! 8* PAKSON TUEELL'S LEGACY: OR, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIR. A MATHEMATICAL STORY. FACTS respecting... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863
...will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool;— Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl? Give grasping pomp its double share,— I ask but one recumbent chair.* Marivauz, we are told, " avait les gouts recherche's que Ton conceit de la part d'une organisation... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1864 - 327 pages
...will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double...I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me b've and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch ; If Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1867
...not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double care, — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me...heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! ' Having had our laugh... | |
 | 1867 - 464 pages
...I ask but one recumbent chair. If Heaven more gen'rous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content I' ORIGIN OF THE PRINTER'S DEVIL. FRANCIS BROWNE. WHEN Faustus, at first, did his printing begin, A... | |
 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER - 1869
...will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double...Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! 74 DE SAUTY. AN ELECTRO-CHEMICAL... | |
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Which others often show for pride, /value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride; — One Stradivarius, I confess, Two Meerschaums, I would fain possess. Wealth's wasteful tricks I will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool; —... 
